Britt Lower

Britt Lower — Biography

Helly R. in the Apple TV+ series Severance is the role American actress Britt Lower is best known for, and the performance won her the 2025 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. In 2026 she reached a wide audience again when she joined the cast of Netflix's Harlan Coben adaptation I Will Find You.

Her early years were rooted in comedy. She studied improvisation at Upright Citizens Brigade and ImprovOlympic while earning a communication degree at Northwestern University. Her first notable job was the technology expert Tanya Sitkowsky on Unforgettable, and in 2015 she broke out as Liz Greenberg in the FXX comedy Man Seeking Woman. She then played Sarah Finn in the second season of Casual, appeared in American Horror Stories and starred in the Yeah Yeah Yeahs video for "Wolf". In 2022 Severance moved her toward drama; during the three-year gap between its first two seasons she spent a month performing in a Circus Flora show in St. Louis. On film she plays Suzie in Tolga Karaçelik's Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer, opposite Steve Buscemi.

Her interest in the circus comes from her mother's face-painting business and shaped her 2020 short Circus Person, which she wrote and directed. She grew up in Heyworth, Illinois, and graduated from high school as valedictorian.